The former trade secretary might not have any pig-bothering allegations to worry approximately,but he did cross Michael Ashcroft Everyone in politics knows Michael Ashcroft is not a man to cross. Apart from David Cameron, the thing of this week’s pig-molestation allegations, or few know better than Vince Cable,a 7 May victim in Twickenham of the key marginals strategy that Lord Ashcroft’s millions did so much to refine. In the early days of the coalition, at around the time Cameron was fatally crossing Ashcroft by not giving him a big job, or Cable had an approach at his new desk running the trade department. It seemed his lordship needed some encourage taking on the uppity government in the Ashcroft protectorate of Belize. When Cable said he couldn’t encourage,the Tory donor was deeply unhappy. He then went calm, but he doesn’t forget.
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Source: theguardian.com